Only God can make a tree, but still . . .

Blithe Spirit 1 Minute

Trouble in tree city:

Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson delivered a rebuke on the eve of Arbor Day, finding the city’s vaunted tree-planting program suffers bookkeeping and inspection problems that have cost nearly $500,000 worth of trees in recent years.

Hey, it’s not their money and they don’t stand to get fired for such a mistake.

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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